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Growing Home Together Podcast
Growing Home Together
120 episodes
6 days ago
Technology is moving faster and faster every day. As parents, one of our biggest yet most challenging responsibilities is to safeguard our children. But these days, it can often feel like technology is outpacing our efforts. Just when we think we have online safety figured out, another threat comes knocking at our door. You may have even considered whether it’s best to simply block your child from technology altogether. However, it’s important to remember that our children are going to have a...
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Technology is moving faster and faster every day. As parents, one of our biggest yet most challenging responsibilities is to safeguard our children. But these days, it can often feel like technology is outpacing our efforts. Just when we think we have online safety figured out, another threat comes knocking at our door. You may have even considered whether it’s best to simply block your child from technology altogether. However, it’s important to remember that our children are going to have a...
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Kids & Family
Religion & Spirituality,
Christianity
Episodes (20/120)
Growing Home Together Podcast
Protecting Your Child from Danger in the Digital World—with Chris McKenna
Technology is moving faster and faster every day. As parents, one of our biggest yet most challenging responsibilities is to safeguard our children. But these days, it can often feel like technology is outpacing our efforts. Just when we think we have online safety figured out, another threat comes knocking at our door. You may have even considered whether it’s best to simply block your child from technology altogether. However, it’s important to remember that our children are going to have a...
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6 days ago
45 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Parenting Your Strong-Willed Child with Wisdom and Grace—with Beth Read
It wasn’t too many months ago that I (Joanna) decided to give up on coloring my hair to cover up all the grey. But you want to know something funny? When I look in the mirror, I sometimes laugh to myself and wonder: How many of these grey hairs are from the stress of parenting our youngest daughter as a toddler? She was fearless, and one of her favorite phrases was, “I do it myself!” We know we are not the only ones who have experienced a battle of wills with our children. Today, you may be f...
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2 weeks ago
36 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
How to Grow Confident Kids Who Tackle New Things—with Valerie Ellis
“But I don’t want to try that!” How many times have you heard this cry ring out whenever your child is faced with something new? Whether it be a new sport, trying to learn an instrument, or simply taking a bite of an unfamiliar food on their plate, our children can often resist new things—even if we know that they’ll eventually be grateful that they pushed through their anxious hesitations. We want to be the type of moms and dads who help our kids grow in confidence. But it can be a challenge...
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1 month ago
46 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
God’s Loving Path to Closeness in Your Marriage—with Bill and Kristi Gaultiere
Do you ever struggle to bridge the gap between your hearts in your marriage? Does deep connection feel always out of reach? Whether in your marriage, your relationship with your kids, or even with an old friend, many of us can feel at a loss for how to express our care and empathy for the people we love. And when we’re overwhelmed or hurting, we end up hiding the pain we feel inside. We settle for shallow relationships because we’re afraid to be truly vulnerable with another person. The good ...
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1 month ago
46 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Finding Your Ministry in the Season of Motherhood—with Jessica Hurlbut
Years ago, when our oldest son was just a toddler, I (Joanna) was deep in the trenches as a stay-at-home mom. I had become engrossed in motherhood, and my world had shrunk to diaper changes and late-night wakings. I could not imagine the world beyond our front door. While motherhood is absolutely a priceless gift from God, it’s important to remember that before we are mothers, we are daughters of the King. Even through the challenges of parenting, He is still inviting us to live out our full ...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Understanding Your Personalities to Transform Your Marriage—with Linda Goldfarb
If you’re married, you don’t need us to tell you that understanding your personalities is key—because the differences between you and your spouse can sometimes collide. In our marriage, we experienced this recently when a concert was coming to our town. What sounded like a fun date night to one of us sounded like a miserable night to the other. In the end, we each walked away feeling a little misunderstood and frustrated. The truth is, mismatched expectations and preferences affect every coup...
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2 months ago
42 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
How To Raise Your Son with Courage and Strength—with Rebekah Lovell
Of our five children, the oldest and the youngest are both boys—with a 17-year age gap between them! They’ve shown us that boys are a bit different to raise than girls, since they both seemed to thrive chaos, dirt, and taking big risks along the way. But time and time again, we’ve recognized that our oldest son’s childhood looked much different from our youngest son’s. Our oldest grew up near dead-end roads and open fields where he could bike and explore all day with his friends. In compariso...
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3 months ago
35 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
How to Help Your Spouse Grow in Their Faith
The great thing about birthdays is that they encourage us to pause and reflect on everything that has brought us to this point in life. Recently, Joanna celebrated her birthday, but coming soon is an even more important celebration—her spiritual birthday. This is the day that she accepted Christ as her Savior and committed to living for him. As we remember our new birth in Jesus, we’re reminded of the many ways God uses the people around us to strengthen our faith. In marriage especially, a h...
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3 months ago
23 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
How to Get Rid of Bitterness in Your Marriage—with Gary Chapman
The longer you share life with your spouse, the more you can struggle with frustrations and disappointments that chip away at your love. Through the years, we’ve heard from many couples who sincerely love one another but struggle to like each other or feel satisfied in their marriage anymore. Every couple goes through seasons of feeling hurt or let down. They begin to pull apart. Joy fades. They lose hope that they’ll ever get what they want from their spouse. Bitterness creeps in, hardening ...
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4 months ago
35 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 112: How to Grandparent with Wisdom and Love—with Larry McCall
Three and a half years ago, we stepped into a whole new world with the birth of our first grandchild. Everyone told us that this new chapter would be full of joy, laughter, and love for this tiny person. And they weren’t wrong! Still, we had no idea just how amazing grandparenting would be, and soon we were dropping everything for the chance to see him and make memories together. Today, we are the grandparents of three little ones (and another one on the way) and we love to spoil them like cr...
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5 months ago
38 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 111: How to Win the Battle Against Mom Guilt and Shame—with Jodi Jackson Tucker
One of the hardest moments I (Joanna) can remember as a mom is when our six-year-old daughter refused, to the point of tears, to wear her blue pants with a butterfly on the pocket. Thinking she was just being stubborn, I refused to back down—and it wasn’t until two hours later that I finally gave up on trying to convince her. Well, a few months later, I learned that our daughter has a significant sensory processing disorder. Those pants that I was so determined for her to wear were actually c...
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6 months ago
40 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 110: How to Break Free of Painful Patterns in Your Marriage —with Ron and Nan Deal
Do you have a dog who panics on a trip to the vet or groomer? It can be quite an ordeal! It’s something we experienced recently with our Bernedoodle, Jovy, on grooming day. While the perceived threat wasn’t real, her reaction to it could have put her (and Joanna!) in real danger. We can sometimes react just like Jovy as we interact with our spouse. Something that seems simple on the surface can trigger instant feelings of stress and anxiety. Our bodies go into overdrive. And in our fight to f...
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7 months ago
52 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 109: How Depression Made an Impact on Our Marriage and Faith
On this podcast, we usually sit down with guests to talk about marriage and family life. But in this episode, we wanted to get personal and share a piece of our own story—specifically, how depression has impacted our marriage. We have been married for over 30 years and have five children together, but what we didn’t know until the birth of our third child is that one in seven women experience postpartum depression (PPD) after birth. Postpartum depression can wear many different faces, such as...
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8 months ago
28 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 108: How to Win the Battle with Overwhelm in Your Family Life—with Ginny Davidson
For parents, March can often feel like the last calm before the storm. Once April arrives, family calendars are inevitably flooded with school exams, spring sports, band concerts and dance recitals, and a whirlwind of other end-of-school-year obligations. Even if our days are full of good things, this hectic time of the year can make us feel tired, stressed, and disconnected from God and one another. Our guest—a busy homeschool mom of three—can certainly relate to this sentiment. Ginny Davids...
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9 months ago
39 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 107: How To Reach Your Child’s Heart Through Bedtime Routines—with Valerie Ellis
As parents, we do all that we can to love and care for our kids. Our days are often filled with driving them to and from school, packing lunchboxes, helping with homework, doing laundry, and keeping up with everything they need to flourish. But in spite of all the time we spend doing things with and for our kids, have you found that it can still be a struggle to connect with them in a meaningful way? We’ve certainly felt this way at times—but we have good news to share. There’s a golden oppor...
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10 months ago
40 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
How Parents of Addicted Children Can Find Hope and Peace—with Dawn Ward
As parents, we do everything we can to keep our kids safe, happy, and thriving. We make sure they eat their vegetables, buckle their seatbelts, and do their homework. We are committed to taking them to Sunday School each week, teaching them right from wrong, and nurturing them with love every day to help them grow into the best versions of themselves. So when we discover that our child has fallen into addiction or some other kind of self-destructive behavior, it can feel like a nightmare. We...
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11 months ago
45 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 105: A Beautifully Busy December (From Our Producers)
Welcome to a special episode of the Growing Home Together Podcast—coming to you from the producers! Hi, my name is Mitch. I support Rob and Joanna in their various creative endeavors by lending a hand with the production of their podcast, social media, blogs, and more. I also have my good friend, Kelsie, with me to help spread some Christmas joy as we bring you a little bit of a different version of the podcast today. Like many of you, Rob and Joanna have a to-do list that might be even lo...
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1 year ago
17 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 104: Simple Steps to Create a Rhythm of Rest—with Kathi Lipp
If you’re like us, your weekly routine is filled with events, chores, doctor’s appointments, and more. Depending on the size of your family and how many obligations each person has to juggle, it can be quite challenging to coordinate all the details of who needs to be where and when. At our house, we have a big calendar hung on the wall of our kitchen that keeps everyone on track and (hopefully) on time. But amid the pressure of our busy family schedule, we constantly find ourselves craving ...
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1 year ago
39 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 103: How to Talk About Sexuality with Your Kids—with Jim Burns
When Joanna was in fifth grade, her teacher passed out a pamphlet to everyone in the class. On that pamphlet were all kinds of topics about puberty and sex, and it had a phone number that you could call to listen to pre-recorded information on every subject. In all honesty, there were lots of terms and phrases on that pamphlet that she had never heard of before! This led to Joanna's mom giving her “The Talk.” If you remember back to your own "talk", your parents may have been open, honest, a...
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1 year ago
42 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Episode 102: How to Rescue Your Family from the Trap of Entitlement—with Kristen Welch
As our children grow up, they may start to handle some things themselves. This could be chores, getting up on time, or saving up their allowance or earned money whenever they want a new toy. This is a natural part of getting older, but as a parent, it can be difficult to navigate when to step in and when is it healthy to let your child fail. There are going to be times when “helping” is actually preventing our children from developing their independence and sense of responsibility. We’ve bee...
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1 year ago
49 minutes

Growing Home Together Podcast
Technology is moving faster and faster every day. As parents, one of our biggest yet most challenging responsibilities is to safeguard our children. But these days, it can often feel like technology is outpacing our efforts. Just when we think we have online safety figured out, another threat comes knocking at our door. You may have even considered whether it’s best to simply block your child from technology altogether. However, it’s important to remember that our children are going to have a...